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Caui Lofgren - Bio

Caui Lofgren is an artist and educator whose work transforms found materials into reimagined narratives, reconciling personal identity with larger cultural frameworks. Rooted in drawing and painting, his practice expands into collage, found interventions, printmaking, and sculpture. He weaves together family narratives from his Swedish and Filipino heritage, exploring migration, ecology, and environmental conservation. His paternal grandmother’s stories of her native Marin-Duque nurtured his early interest in botany, while his Swedish/Filipino father shared a romanticized vision of a Kerouacian American West. By merging these contrasting perspectives, Lofgren constructs a visual language between representation, abstraction, and magical realism — blending real and imagined histories, migration, capitalism, and cross-cultural mythology.
EXHIBITIONS

2024     Artists of Hawaiʻi, Juror: Tom Klobe, Downtown Art Center, Honolulu, HI

               Skyway 2024: A Contemporary Exhibition, Contemporary Art Museum, USF, Tampa, FL

               SFMOMA Small Press Book Bazaar! with Kala Art Institute, SFMOMA, SF, CA    

2023    Cut and Paste: The Art of Collage, Conversations with Artists, online 
              New Painting, Juror: Rachel Gugelberger, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
  

2019     Small and Smaller, Juror: Heather Darcy Bhandari, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

2016     Aqua Art Fair, Phylogeny Gallery, Miami, FL

2015     Here and Now, State of the Arts Gallery, Sarasota, FL

2014     87th Annual International Competition (online exhibition), The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA

              Juror: Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director & Chief Curator, SITE Santa Fe

2012    The Truth is Too Convoluted, C. Emerson Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

              Contemporary Painting, Englewood Art Center, Ringling College of Art and Design,

              Englewood FL

2011     Navel Gazing, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL (traveled)

2010   Navel Gazing, Brevard Art Museum, Melbourne, FL (invitational, catalog)

             S/ART/Q Invitational, Sarasota, FL

             Wild, benefit exhibition for Myakka State Park, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL

             University of Florida Alumni Exhibition, Tioga FL

2008  Les Ensignants DʼArt, Manatee Community College, Bradenton, FL

             NFS, Sarasota Arts Center, Sarasota, FL

2007   Exhibit A, Mack B Projects, Sarasota, FL

              Ringling College Instructors Exhibition, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

2006   Ringling College Instructors Exhibition, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL

2005   Eden Roc Resort and Spa with Bettcher Gallery, Miami Beach, FL

2004   AFF: Contemporary Art Fair, Bettcher Gallery, New York, NY

2003   Annual Faculty Exhibition, Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL

              Recent Paintings, Rowe Art Gallery, Carroll College, Waukesha, WI

              Creations, The Art Store, Gainesville, FL

2002   Atlantic Center for the Arts Annual Florida University Student Juried Exhibition, Atlantic

             Center for the Arts, Guest curator: Kerry James Marshall


PUBLIC ART AND EVENTS

2017   Grand Slam, Community Tennis Ball Sculpture, facilitated with regional high school and

            college students, Realize Bradenton Art Slam, FL

2016   Ringling Underground, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL

2015   10x10: Ten Slides Ten Speakers, Herald-Tribune building, Sarasota, FL

2014   Spin Art: Realize Bradenton Art Slam, facilitated with regional high school and college
             students, Bradenton, FL

2012   Tangrams: Annual Asian Festival at Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL

2007 Classroom in the Park: Arts Day Sarasota, Sarasota

2002 Thompson Elementary Mural: Thompson Elementary School student work. Vero Beach
             Public Library, Vero Beach, FL   

1998   Becoming Independent/Finley Mural: City of Santa Rosa Parks and Recreation

            Department and Becoming Independent

            Community Mural: Santa Rosa Parks and Recreation Youth Program

1997   Becoming Independent/Ridgeway Mural: City of Santa Rosa Parks and Recreation
            Department and Becoming Independent 


ARTIST REGISTRIES AND RESIDENCIES

2024     Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2011    Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY


AWARDS

2000-03 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2002 Deanʼs Award University of Florida, Fine Arts Department, Gainesville, FL

2001 Harn Museum of Art Studio Award Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL

1998  Certificate of Appreciation for Community Enrichment City of Santa Rosa Recreation & Parks, Santa                  Rosa, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2024  Studio Visit Magazine Volume 53, featured artist online and print, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
            Conversations with Artists, February Featured Artist and Interview, online

2012   INDA 7, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011    INDA 6, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2011    A Gulf Coast Journal with Jack Perkins, PBS/WEDU television interview, FL
2002 Lauren Garber, “A Recipe for the Creation of Three Paintings”, The Satellite, 10/2, Gainesville, FL
            Beth Green, “Library to get Studentsʼ Mural”, The Press Journal, 8/11, Vero Beach, FL

            Laura Stewart, “Student Art Speaks Volumes”, Daytona Beach News-Journal, 6/23, Daytona, FL                          Sandi  Carroll, “University Student Art Exhibit on View”, The Observer, 6/7, New Smyrna Beach, FL
            Paul Marseglia, “Studentsʼ Works on Display”, The Daily Journal, 5/31, Volusia County, FL

SKILLS
painting (oil, acrylic, water media, mural), drawing (wet and dry media), printmaking (intaglio, relief, screen printing), ceramic (wheel, hand building, slip casting), shop equipment (woodworking, welding, casting), gallery preparation and installation, laser cutting, Adobe CS, Office 360, Google Workspace, remote learning

Contact Me

941-592-8078

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